Linix has beaten me

QlimaxUK

QlimaxUK

QlimaxUK

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So I thought I would try the Linux OS for the first time yesterday, downloaded the Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS desktop iso wrote it to DVDRW and installed it to my spare computer rebooted and it just booted into windows 7 with no sign of Ubuntu being installed apart from the missing drive space, I tried adding it to the boot using easyBCD and I found that when I try to reboot into Ubuntu it just freezes on a blank screen, I think I tried installing this OS at least 5 times in different ways including installing to an empty HDD on the ext3 filesystem..

so I am all out of ideas I have been using windows for all these years since the mid 90's so have many experience installing different windows OS's and formatting drives over the years and have also setup windows duel boots in the past (such as windows 7 + XP) but this Ubuntu OS just won't work for me..

only things I havn't tried yet is installing Ubuntu to an NTFS file system OR removing a HDD leaving only 1 empty HDD and installing it that way but I thought I would ask here before I waste more time on this.

EDIT: forgot to add that Ubuntu worked just fine when 'booted from DVD' so I know it is compatible with my system but when its on the HDD it just doesn't work, could someone also explain to me what the whole GRUB (legacy) and GRUB2 is all about?

EDIT2: how do I use the whole Ubuntu cloud server/open stack thing, it says it allows for the first 10 servers free, I would like to setup a Factorio dedicated server if thats possible?
 
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GRUB2 is the bootloader. I don't know the ins and outs of it (you'll have to read about it yourself) but basically it scans a disk for OSs and makes a little menu to select one from at boot.

Since you haven't yet seen a grub menu suggests to me that none of the times you installed it did it deal with the MBR correctly. However you install it (multi-boot or single OS) grub should do the MBR so that when you restart it pops up.

Silly question but when you installed Ubuntu to its own HDD did you actually select to boot from that drive? Maybe you did and it failed and went to the next one in the list (the Windows one) in which case it will be very hard to diagnose.

Anyway, I'd practice on the empty HDD until you get it right then go for the dual-boot.
 
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yes I need to try setting the boot drive in the bios.. :o

Question about duel booting, does Linux have to be the 'dominate boot' so the windows boot branches off the Ubuntu MBR, as windows dosn't recognize the ext file system?
 
Sounds like one of two possibilities.
1, you might not have set the mount partition.
During the install where it asks where on the HDD you want to install the OS, choose "some thing else", click the free space on your drive, then click "set mount partition" (or some thing like that) and set it to "/", then install as normal.

Or 2, if you have more than 1 hdd in your PC, you just might not have chosen your primary drive to install the bootloader. I have done this a few times. So try booting from your second drive and see if it's that.
 
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